Conrad Wilde Gallery is pleased to
present Structures, our season-opening
exhibition. The show opens with an
artist talk on Saturday, September 4th,
at 5:00 pm followed by a reception
from 6:00-9:00 pm. In September,
Conrad Wilde Gallery resumes regular
gallery hours: Tues. through Sat. from
11:00 am until 5:00 pm. The exhibit
runs through Sat. September 25th.
Through a variety of techniques
including sculpture, drawing and
printmaking, Structures examines the
building blocks of form and physical
geometries. Featured in the exhibition
are works by artists, Kim Matthews,
Garry Mitchell, Tim Mosman and Miles
Conrad.
Gallery Hours Wed - Sat 1pm-5pm
Contreras Gallery & Jewelry
110 East 6th Street
Tucson, AZ 85705
This exhibition is based on the Ex-Voto style of painting, with European and Hispanic origins.
This is a guest artist event, with over 16 Ex-Votos and Retablos
Ex-Voto, taken from Latin, (ex voto suscepto) meaning: "from the vow made". Ex-Votos can be a variety of offerings, to saints, The Virgin Mary, or The Trinity.
Contreras Gallery features the most popular of the offerings, which are especially produced in Mexico.
They are the hand painted votives on metal plates, offered in gratitude, and devotion for the fulfillment of a personal vow.
Participating Artists, in alphabetical order:
Cristina Cardenas, Neda Contreras, E. Michael Contreras, Miguel Flores Jr., Ceci Garcia, Carolyn King, Lydia Maldonado, David Moreno, Ruben Moreno, Barbara Peabody, Hector Perez, Martin Quintanilla, John Salgado, David Tineo, Julianne Hurst Williams
above, Cristina Cardenas, Cruzando El Desierto, Mixed Media, 12" x 14"
CALIENTE! ~ Celebrate the Torpid Heat of the Sonoran Sun
July 1 - August 14, 2010
CALIENTE! is a wide spin on what normal people would liken to a firestorm – the too-hot-to-be-true heat and humidity that “real” Tucsonans have come to accept as the price to pay for living in the Southwest. Lawrence of Arabia had a love/hate relationship with the Arabian Desert heat and the same holds for those who choose to endure the summers here. Hot colors and cool shapes are on abundant display for viewers to both acknowledge and momentarily forget the extreme temperatures outside.
Also showing-SMALL WORKS REVIEW ~ Selections from the 18th Small Works Invitational
Celebrating Dinnerware's first 30 years, 1979-2009
Dinnerware Artspace is a nonprofit community artspace creating artist
exhibitions, artist studios, and artist live/work space in downtown Tucson.
The unusual name comes from the name of the original building where
Dinnerware was conceived on Congress Street in 1979.
Over time the name "Dinnerware" became synonymous with edgy
contemporary, community art exhibitions.
We are located in the Citizens Warehouse at 44 West Sixth Street in the
Historic Warehouse District in downtown Tucson, 2 blocks west of Stone
Avenue on Sixth Street, at the train tracks, on the north side.
Central Arts Gallery is also at this location.n its 29th year. Supported in part by the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Our gallery is committed to the Tucson artist community who in turn, support Dinnerware through their generosity.
Faculty Show:
Living on the Edge of the Pimería Alta
September 4 – October 2
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 4, 6–9 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, October 2, 6–9 pm
The mission of The Drawing Studio is to teach, demonstrate, share, and encourage the art studio practices from which the skills of visual intelligence are cultivated by people at any age or walk of life.
Located in Tucson, AZ, The Drawing Studio offers a wide range of adult studio art classes and workshops at all skill levels. We also offer open practice sessions, exhibitions in our TDS Gallery and other venues, an Associates program for fellowship and support, an intensive summer and weekly school-year program for teens, and outreach tutoring for seniors in group housing.
Rodrigo Moya: photographs Luis Gonzalez Palma: photographs Alice Leora Briggs: drawings
September 7 – November 6, 2010
Reception: 7:00 - 10:00 pm Saturday, September 11, 2010
"Part of a yearlong celebration of Etherton Gallery's 30th Anniversary, the show features sgrafitto drawings by Alice Leora Briggs, hand-colored gelatin silver photographs by Guatemalan photographer, Luis Gonzalez Palma and documentary photographs by Mexican photographer Rodrigo Moya. Together these artists give the viewer access to intimate moments, insider views and documentary images that challenge the cultural myths and historical understanding that have conditioned our appraisal of Latin America. Etherton Gallery will host an artist reception Saturday, September 11, 7-10 pm at the gallery. Luis Gonzalez Palma, who lives in Argentina, is traveling to Tucson in one of his few trips to the United States this year, to attend the reception and will speak at the Center for Creative Photography the next day."
The Eric Firestone Gallery, set within a historic Josias Joesler designed adobe, offers visitors a unique sense of a 1930s era Tucson and provides an intimate environment for the presentation of artwork and design from the period. Exceptional examples of early 20th century design is paired with works from American Regionalist and Modernist artists who lived and worked in the southwest; their paintings and sculptures tell stories of a different time and exemplify the rugged individualism and determination specific to artists of the region.
Exhibition Dates: August 27- November 11, 2010
Closing Reception: November 4, 5 - 6:30 pm
Gregory Euclide?s work explores the manner in which we experience nature and how these encounters are tied to the cultural practice of fabricating landscapes as idealized constructs. His recent compositions are a series of sculptural “captures” made by pouring paint or liquid adherent over the natural environment. Euclide uses the
complexity and interconnectedness of the environment as the content and conceptual framework for his art. In "Real, Natural, and Unsustainable,” Euclide will explore the
Tucson landscape, building ethereal, bucolic topographies to provide an explorable vignette of our local surroundings. His work is a manifestation of the tension between our desires to engage, preserve and sustain the natural world and the demands our lifestyles place upon the environment.
Gregory Euclide?s work has been shown in exhibitions at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, White Walls, San Francisco, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He recently completed his installation, “Because There?s There, Here is Just Fine” for the Biennial of the Americas held in Denver, Colorado.
Joseph Gross Gallery/Lionel Rombach Gallery
The School of Art, University of Arizona
Joseph Gross Gallery
As early as 1957 the Art Department had a small exhibition space, aptly named the Educational Gallery. Exhibiting student and faculty work, the gallery changed locations and was renamed the 101 Gallery in 1977. Joseph Gross, Ph.D., established the Joseph Gross Gallery in 1978 in honor of his father, Joseph Gross Sr., an art enthusiast and essential oils manufacturer who was born in Vienna in 1900 and immigrated to the United States in 1926.
Over the years the Joseph Gross Gallery has changed exhibition focus, expanding its program to include emerging and established professional artists. Closing in 1990 for construction, the new building was dedicated in 1993. In 1998 the Joseph Gross Gallery celebrated its 20-year anniversary with the exhibition, "Tribute" featuring works by some of the students, faculty and renowned professional artists who had shown at the Gallery over the years.
The Gallery continues to exhibit student, faculty, and professional artists of excellence in a broad range of media and concepts.
Lionel Rombach Gallery
Started in 1977, the 830 Gallery at 830 E. Speedway was the first student gallery for the University Art Department. The gallery was managed entirely by students, and relocated several times until a space was dedicated in the new Joseph Gross Gallery building in 1993.
In 1997, the 830 Gallery became the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Lionel Rombach
is a University of Arizona alum and generous donor to educational programs.
The goal of the gallery is to provide an exhibition space for students to realize their artistic visions and learn about gallery management under the guidance of faculty and the gallery curator.
Currently both galleries are located in the Joseph Gross gallery.
If you combined the classic children's book illustrations of Dr. Seuss, LSD and late night softcore porn on Cinemax, you might end up with something like Christi Rochin's latest works. Or, you might end up with something even better, in which case, please let Christi Rochin know so she can come over, enjoy the empty, anonymous nature of our loveless society with you, and then crash on your sofa. Don't worry, she'll be gone in the morning, and she might even forget to take her fifth of Jack.
beK Davis is fascinated by the chasm between the esteemed Fine Arts and the lowly Illustration; as such, her work hovers between the two realms. Are these soulless creatures merely part of the character design realm contained within the artless Illustration universe? Or do they fit within a deeper commentary of a superficial culture, as explored by Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami? Some of her characters have a story behind them, some have a story to tell, and—let’s be honest here—some are just totally pointless. beK doesn’t take her art seriously, and she expects you to take her very seriously about that.
Tom Philabaum built his first glassblowing studio in 1975 in downtown Tucson, and opened a gallery in 1982.
Tom and his wife Dabney ran a second gallery location in the Tucson foothills from 2002-2007. Since that time, they have re-focused their efforts at the original home of Philabaum Glass in downtown Tucson, where Dabney runs Philabaum Glass Gallery, showing artists from across the country, and Tom continues to spearhead the studio of blown glass, and the more current sculptural and site specific art, using a broad array of techniques, including kiln casting, fusing, and slumping.
With lots of design and construction expertise from our good friend Mark Matlock, owner of Fragment Gallery, we've remodeled Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop! Mark's design provides us with a new office area, additional storage and best of all - more wall exhibition space! Thanks Mark! In addition, we also have a new face on-line. Member Ruben Urrea Moreno is putting finishing touches on a new website!
These new spaces ...generate and opens up new possibilities for our gallery and we want you to be part of it by celebrating with our featured artists' most recent artwork- the "creative spaces" they are currently exploring.
Gallery hours Friday & Saturday 1 to 5 pm or by appointment. Call (520) 881-5335
Our name, Raices (roots); Taller (workshop), is a combination of two separate yet very compatible impulses that led to our founding 9 years ago. The two founding members, Juan Enriquez and Jorge Arteaga needed a studio space in which to pursue their artwork. They found such a space at 222 E. 6th St. in Tucson, which was conveniently attached to a storefront gallery. These were the conditions under which the collective effort was born - an effort that incorporates the artistic, organizational and financial abilities of its members. From 23 initial members, the group has stabilized at 12- members. Many members have known one another for several years within the arts and educational communities. Raices Taller is a collective that has been built upon trust and mutual respect of the members that strives to encourage support within the group. A primary goal is to educate and promote the arts experience to segments of the population that otherwise might not have access to it through other more traditional methods.
a two day event celebrating the folklore of the southwest showcasing some of the most important underground musicians and cutting-edge international visionary artists. This is a grassroots event created and inspired by artists and musicians.
Santa Muerte Art Exhibition
September 10th - November 7th, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, September 10th, 2010,
7:00PM - Midnight
Participating Artists:
Mark Ryden (Los Angeles) Chris Mars (Minneapolis) Daniel Martin Diaz (Tucson) Jason D'Aquino (Brooklyn) Craig LaRotonda (Buffalo) Bob Dob(Los Angeles) Bryan Cunningham (Los Angeles) Norbert Kox (Wisconsin) P.J. Fidler (Los Angeles) Fred Stonehouse (Milwaukee) Robert Palacios (Los Angeles) Paul Barnes (Scotland, UK) Joel Nakamura (Santa Fe) Pol Turgeon (Montreal, CA) Jon McNair (Michigan) Nicoletta Ceccoli (Rome, Italy) Michael Page (San Francisco) Charlie Immer (Maryland) Alfred Quiroz (Tucson) Scott Holloway (Massachusetts) Raudiel Sañudo (Tijuana, Mexico) Jennybird Alcantara ( San Francisco)
Music Concert at The Rialto Theatre
Saturday, Sept 11th, 2010, 7:00PM – 2AM
Join Mostly Bears, Gabriel Sullivan and The Taraf de Tucson, Blind Divine, Ensphere, Strata Divide,
WOPR (midnight dance party), and Flam Chen of All Souls Procession for an epic night of music and drama.
The Historic Rialto Theatre - Tickets: $7 at the door, all ages show
Since 1990 Etherton Gallery has managed the Temple Gallery, located at the historic Temple of Music and Art in downtown Tucson. The gallery is a mainstay of the downtown Tucson art scene and hosts several exhibitions each year featuring painting, sculpture and mixed media by top local and regional artists.
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